RE: Possible to program NRF52840 Dongle without using NRF Connect Desktop

Øyvind — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:57:01 GMT

Hello,

Please have a look at the nRF52840 Dongle tutorial. As the dongle does not have a built-in Segger J-Link OB Debugger (see this thread), you must use NRF Connect for Desktop or nrfutil to program the device on the dongle. nRF Util is a Python package and command-line utility that supports Device Firmware Updates (DFU) and cryptographic functionality.

If you need to debug, you should get the nRF52840-DK which has an onboard Segger J-Link Debugger.

More information in the documentation for the nRF52840 Dongle here, and the subchapter Programming.

[quote user=""]Can i develop application program using NRF52840 Dongle [/quote]

Not sure what you mean, but we have some examples that work with the dongle. In our SDK we have working examples for the dongle (pca10059):

..\examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_blinky

..\examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_hrs

..\examples\connectivity\ble_connectivity

..\examples\peripheral\blinky

..\examples\peripheral\cli

Hope this helps on your way.

Kind regards,
Øyvind